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While we welcome the release of Marine veteran Sergeant Andrew Tahmoorissi – a man who took a wrong turn at the border while carrying weapons prohibited in Mexico and was held in a craphole for 7-months – perhaps the Judge was influenced by the upcoming mid-terms that could empower the GOP to curtail aid to Mexico.

It is possible that Tahmoorissi’s attorney convinced the judge that the Sergeant could not receive adequate medical treatment for his PTSD in Mexico and that the former soldier might make good on a previous suicide attempt – something that would greatly anger Americans and provoke a backlash against Mexico.

Bottom line …

Considering the fact that Mexico has done little or nothing to stem the outflow of illegal aliens to the United States, they should be treated like a dangerous presence on our border rather than a trusted partner like Canada.

Considering the outrage of Mexican military crossing our border and shooting at Border Patrol Agents with a simple apology should have made Tahmooressi’ s release a slam-dunk.

Unfortunately, they decided to play politics – and even worse – President Obama and his cadre of progressive socialist democrats did nothing!

-- steve

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

DO NOT VOTE FOR BOBBY “BS” SHRIVER – SAVE SANTA MONICA AIRPORT AND LA COUNTY

As we come down to the final days before the November 4, 2014 mid-term election, I would like to remind all of my fellow conservatives and local residents that we do not need a smarmy, self-affected Kennedy clone as our supervisor – beholden to all of his big-business friends and developers.

I fear that if Bobby “BS” Shriver is elected as a supervisor, he will intensify his efforts to close Santa Monica Airport (Clover Field) and hand it over to his big-money developers. Not only will we lose a piece of national aerospace treasure, but we will no longer have an emergency lifeline into the area in the event we experience a region-wide natural disaster.

I am voting for Sheila Kuehl, a flaming progressive socialist liberal democrat – but a person who has core convictions and will not sell out her constituents. Kuehl is endorsed by the Los Angeles Times and just about every major progressive socialist democrat I despise. Such as Henry Waxman, Brad Sherman, Fran Pavley – and the list goes on-and-on.

Bobby should be embarassed that the Mayor of the People's Republic of Santa Monica, Pam O'Connor endorsed Sheila Kuehl -- even though Shriver is a long-time Santa Monica resident and served on the Santa Monica City Council.

The best the the Kennedy clone could do is to dishonestly and disingenuously imply that he was endorsed by the departing Zev Yaroslavsky – and Zev asked the campaign to quit running their deceptive campaign ads. Of course that did not stop Shriver’s campaign from using Kennedy relatives in robo-calls with dishonest spoofed return numbers.

Most of Bobby’s campaign funds came from celebrities and Kennedy sycophants who believed that the family lechers and drunks were honorable people or blinded by the progressive media-creation of the Kennedy Camelot myth. The rest were big money developers, financial services moguls, and construction companies – people who will surely have major business before the County Board of Supervisors. Shriver was the candidate who did not want to cap political spending and has significantly raised more money than Kuehl.

Bottom line …

I do not trust Bobby “BS” Shriver and believe he is a clear and present danger to the Santa Monica Airport and the County of Los Angeles. I respectfully urge a vote for the lesser of two evils, Sheila Kuehl. At least she has a record of real legislative accomplishment and is not an ego-driven Kennedy.

Say what you will about the progressive socialist democrats, they have an heir presumptive and they spend their time, effort, and money attacking the opposition rather than attacking each others. The fact that their heir presumptive is a corrupt, lying, Marxist – they are spinning any opposition as a “war on women” much like they spun the opposition to Barack Obama as “racism.”

So where is the GOP?

No leader

No platform

Suckered into debates on abortion, religion, and race over the economy, jobs, national defense, foreign affairs.

Jeb Bush is the poster boy for Northeastern Liberal Elites and their crony capitalism.

Mike Huckabee is more about religion than pragmatic decision-making and destroyed all of the hard-disks when he left the governor’s mansion.

Rand Paul is a small time grifter who talks conservative, like his father, with dodgy white supremacists in the background.

Chris Christie is a fighter, but also a liberal who supports public employee unions and gun control.

Marco Rubio is decent enough, but relatively unknown.

Rick Perry is an old-fashioned Texas politician with limited appeal.

Ben Carson is an articulate and gifted physician that has never managed anything with the skillset required for a government position.

Paul Ryan is a budget and policy wonk without broader experience.

Ted Cruz is an exciting conservative, but does not appear to have traction with the big money boys.

As for the rest of them – so what?

Other than Mitt Romney, there is nobody that looks presidential and possesses the requisite experience of managing the Executive Branch. A decent man whose observations and predictions during the past presidential campaign prove that he was well-informed and able to function without a TelePrompTer.

Romney’s single greatest flaw is that he is a gentleman and unlikely to effectively fight the opposition with strong assertive language in the manner of a Chris Christie or Newt Gingrich.

Bottom line …

If the GOP’ presumptive heir is to be Mitt Romney, we need to secure his cooperation NOW and start the campaign. The progressive socialist democrats are running a 24/7/365 campaign … unlike the GOP who starts getting serious only after the primaries have destroyed all of the GOP candidates. The chances of another leader with national name recognition and a record of accomplishment is unlikely to surface in the next two years.

It is time to place competence and patriotism over color and sex.

What you can do now … stop the progressive socialist democrats in the House and the Senate, restore the constitutional checks and balances that prevent an out-of-touch, out-of-control president from taking unilateral action against America and Americans and favoring our enemies over our allies.

-- steve

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

Unfortunately, not everybody that is supporting non-profit causes knows that their money is being channeled to for-profit enterprises that manage mailing lists, create mailing pieces, or otherwise engage in the business of advertising the cause. As I see it, the problem is when the vendors of computer services, print and mailing shops, and sellers of other services create their own charities or cause-based groups that simply channel donations into their own pockets.

From Bluegrass Bruce …

Alan Gottlieb Takes A Slice Of SAF Donations

Looks like background check sellout Alan Gottlieb is turning quite a profit for himself promoting his initiative out in Washington: “While tax documents show Gottlieb collects $72,000 in pay annually between Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee, millions of dollars raised by those nonprofits have gone to Gottlieb’s for-profit direct-mail business, Merril Associates. According to tax records nonprofits must file, Second Amendment Foundation paid Merril Associates $4.1 million between 2002 and 2012, while Citizens Committee paid the company nearly $1.1 million in that time.”

When it comes to Second Amendment issues, your money is best spent with the National Rifle Association, your state’s rifle or pistol association, or your local gun club. That way you can avoid diluting the influence your money may purchase and you have the peace of mind knowing that the organization actually is an effective lobbyist for all Second Amendment and gun-rights issues.

-- steve

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

Another idiotic robo-call from someone who believes that the Kennedy name should overcome commonsense and make me want to vote for Bobby “BS” Shriver, a dilettante self-aggrandizing, self-serving patron of charity and the arts over an effective legislator like Sheila Kuehl.

Of course, I should consider that Ethel Kennedy, a socialite and the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, knows something about people and politics … considering her late husband was a lecher who professed to be a good Catholic but spent a significant portion of his time using women like Kleenex when he wasn’t playing power politics in his position as the Attorney General.

Pursuing the family business …

The FBI's top secret Kennedy files that showed Bobby and Jackie were lovers

On the evening of November 25, 1963, the widowed Jackie Kennedy walked through Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington DC, with her brother-in-law Bobby. At the grave of Jackie's husband John, who had been assassinated three days previously, the pair dropped to their knees and prayed.

Afterwards, Jackie placed lilies of the valley on the earth. Then, holding hands, the widow and younger brother of John Fitzgerald Kennedy returned to their car.

They were joined in grief, but soon their relationship went beyond shared sorrow - becoming a clandestine affair that ended only when Bobby decided to run for President in 1968. <Source>

Jackie Kennedy had a four-year love affair with Bobby Kennedy that began not long after JFK’s assassination and grew so intense that when RFK was gunned down, it was she — not his wife — who instructed doctors to pull the plug, an explosive new book claims.

The married senator and father of 11 kids was the former first lady’s one “true love” — and his wife, Ethel, along with the rest of the Kennedy clan, knew about their romance, according to “Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story.”

“Everybody knew about the affair. The two of them carried on like a pair of lovesick teenagers,” the late Franklin Roosevelt Jr., who served as JFK’s undersecretary of commerce, says in the book.

Ethel chose to ignore her husband’s lechery and infidelity … so why would I trust her to know anything about Bobby Shriver or do anything other than promote the family business?

While some progressive socialist democrats still believe in the media-created myth of Kennedy’s Camelot – the truth is far more different and speaks to self-serving politics as a family business and a way to gain and maintain the family’s collective fortune.

Does Ethel sitting on her elevated perch know that I could care less about the Kennedy name and more about the Santa Monica Airport which Bobby Shriver tried to close. An storied airport that currently serves as a lifeline into the West Los Angeles area during a region-wide natural disaster. An airport rich in aviation history that would be destroyed by the big-money pals of Bobby and his fellow swells.

VOTE FOR NO MORE BS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY POLITICS – VOTE FOR SHEILA KUEHL.

While both candidates are flaming progressive socialist democrats, only Kuehl has the legislative ability to effectively run something bigger than the Santa Monica City Council whose politics are left of San Francisco – albeit the area has better weather.

P.S. The spoofed number on the display screen of my phone (310-647-5611) is an “out-of-service number” – is this just another indication of the dishonesty that pervades the Kennedy campaign?

One wonders why President Obama would appoint an Ebola Czar who has no background in medicine in healthcare …

Of course the short answer is that Obama’s Ebola Czar, unelected and unconfirmed by the Senate, is just another trustworthy radical leftist that is loyal to the Obama Administration and to the progressive socialist democrats. The fact that he is a lawyer, a “fixer” and “manipulator” of facts is his overarching qualification for the position. That his wife, Monica Medina, an attorney and former Biden political operative, is Hispanic only adds to Klain’s resume.

To illustrate Ron Klain’s fundamental understanding of the politics, we present Ron Klain in his own words …

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If this putz was honest, he would understand that the biggest problem in the world is political corruption and that humanitarian funds meant to provide clean water, food, adequate shelter, and sustainable economies are being drained off by corrupt politicians who want to secure and perpetuate their political power. And, that conflict between nations is little more than a shell game to keep the corruption growing.

Two-for-one …

Sitting next to his wife, Monica Medina, an attorney and former operative for Vice President Joe Biden, who is currently one of those progressive socialist democrat radicals inserted into our infrastructure to promote the radical left’s public policies.

Monica Medina currently is the Principal Deputy Undersecretary for Oceans and Atmosphere of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 2008, after the election, she served on the Presidential Transition Team and led the agency review of NOAA, and the confirmation team of Administrator Lubchenco. Ms. Medina also serves as the U.S. Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission.

Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Ms. Medina served as a Senior Officer in the Pew Environment Group, where she provided advice and assistance on issues of marine law and policy. Ms. Medina previously was the Deputy Director of the U.S. Office of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Ms. Medina has also spent a number of years as a partner at the law firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, with a practice focused on environmental law, corporate law, and biotechnology matters.

From 1992 through 1999, Ms. Medina held a number of positions in the Clinton Administration and on Capitol Hill. She was General Counsel of NOAA from 1997-1999. While General Counsel of NOAA, Ms. Medina represented the United States in several international negotiations, and argued and won significant cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Before joining NOAA, Ms. Medina was appointed by Janet Reno to serve as Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, with oversight of the Environment Division; earlier, she was a Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

She is an honors graduate of the Columbia Law School and Georgetown University. She is married to Ronald A. Klain, and they have three teenage children.

The real reason the progressive socialist democrats are behind population control and global warming …

Many radicals on the far left hold “Malthusian” views believe that planetary resources are finite and that the Earth can sustain a limited number of people. Therefore, an enlightened elite must be given near totalitarian powers in order to manage the scarcity of the resources for the benefit of the collective society. In essence, the basis of socialism and its more virulent form, communism. Unfortunately, history has clearly demonstrated that when a relatively few people are given near unlimited power, their first action is to secure the source of the power and to perpetuate their control over that source of power. To this process, the ends always justify the means, whether those means are fair or foul is subservient to the “nobility” of the ends.

Malthusianism is a school of ideas derived from the political/economic thought of the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus, as laid out in his 1798writings, An Essay on the Principle of Population, which describes how unchecked population growth is exponential while the growth of the food supply was expected to be arithmetical. Malthus believed there were two types of "checks" that could then reduce the population, returning it to a more sustainable level. He believed there were "preventive checks" such as moral restraints (abstinence, delayed marriage until finances become balanced), and restricting marriage against persons suffering poverty and/or defects. Malthus believed in "positive checks", which lead to 'premature' death: disease, starvation, war, resulting in what is called a Malthusian catastrophe. The catastrophe would return population to a lower, more "sustainable", level. The term has been applied in different ways over the last two hundred years, and has been linked to a variety of other political and social movements, but almost always refers to advocates of population control. <Source>

Unfortunately, Malthus developed his thesis in the early years of the industrial revolution and did not anticipate substantive science and technological discoveries which prolonged life and created additional sustainable resources.

There does not appear to be a worldwide catalog of existing and exploitable resources nor a quantified sustainable population number that can be justified with scientific rigor. And, in some cases, we find the United Nations overstating population growth, global warming, and pandemic information in their quest to span sovereign nations, consolidate their extra-judicial powers, and to develop their own sustainable funding sources that do not rely on the politics of contributing countries.

What we have are estimates, projections, and computer models that are grossly inadequate to the task. But, allow politicians to use the narrative of limited resources and sustainability to impose near tyrannical public policies on the populace for the purpose of gaining and maintaining political power.

And why population growth is not exponential and will peak and then start to decline …

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Many demographers believe that fertility rates are dropping as a consequence of urbanization – where, unlike rural agrarian areas where additional children have additional benefit and economic value, children in urban areas represent additional costs without additional benefits. With more women fixated on careers or the necessity of providing a secondary family income source, larger families become increasingly problematical. Some see the modern welfare state as re-conferring an economic advantage to single-parent families in the inner cities and thus is counterproductive as it increases poverty, welfare costs, and the number of children likely to live sub-optimal lives and perpetuate a permanent political underclass.

Why the blacks might believe that their government is waging a war against them …

It is understandable that some lesser educated people might believe that industrialized societies may be waging a biological war against their populations in order to bring about a political outcome of a more sustainable planet. The leap of logic needed to believe this is very, very small. Some even believing that drugs in the inner cities is also part of this biological war against population growth.

Bottom line …

It appears to me that our new Ebola Czar is intellectually dishonest and a committed ideologue. Else, he would acknowledge that the world's most pressing “root cause” issue is political corruption which leads to real problems like war, famine, disease, and poverty. And, that his boss, President Barack Hussein Obama and his cadre of progressive socialist democrats is at the forefront of this political corruption.

The truth is that nature has figured out a way to keep life, be it animal, plant, or human, in check – that life is interrelated to available resources (water, food, shelter, and the conditions to procreate) and subject to natural calamities that occur from time-to-time. These calamities, from asteroid strikes, viruses, and weather, are all part of the planetary ecosystem and will continue unabated until the Earth is consumed by our expanding Sun billions of years from now. Human input into this system can prolong the resiliency of man, but cannot stop the inevitable destruction of our planet.

Until then, we have to find a way to eliminate political corruption, become good stewards of our planetary resources (e.g. eliminate pollution), and promote man’s knowledge and resiliency so that people can enjoy the life that has been propitiously provided on our planet.

I suggest that as a start, we can remove the progressive socialist democrats from the House, the Senate, the Presidency, the Judiciary, and the bureaucracy – returning to a more conservative approach to geo-politics and the preservation of the greatest nation on the face of the Earth.

I just heard that Jeb Bush will throw his hat into the ring for the GOP presidential nomination and am totally pissed off at both the Republican National Committee and the Democrat National Committee for providing us with a modern history of lame, corrupt, or lying candidates that are dragging our nation down. How low can America go before becoming an amalgam of Mexico and France?

Bottom line …

Perhaps we should withhold all money from the major national committees until they provide a single candidate and a platform! As for the special interests that normally fund these affairs, perhaps they should be investigated for political corruption – and the results made public.

The thought that another Bush or another Clinton is what’s best for America is absolutely crazy. Both Bush and Clinton will give away the American birthright and access to our treasury to illegal aliens in order to get elected. Hillary is a known liar and is demonstrably corrupt. Bush is a lightweight that can be manipulated by people like Karl Rove.

What the hell has America done to deserve this? While Bush is infinitely preferable than Clinton, both are likely to generate the same chaos, confusion, and continue the downward spiral.

-- steve

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

Another idiotic robo-call from someone who believes that the Kennedy name should overcome commonsense and make me want to vote for Bobby “BS” Shriver, a dilettante self-aggrandizing, self-serving patron of charity and the arts over an effective legislator like Sheila Kuehl.

Of course, I should consider that “Vicky Kennedy,” a lawyer and the widow of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy knows something about people and politics … considering her late husband was a drunk, lecher, and the killer of a young woman he left to suffocate in an underwater car – all to preserve his presidential ambitions. I guess that would be a great recommendation if you really were a Kennedy and used women like Kleenex. Google “waitress sandwich” and see what happens.

While some progressive socialist democrats still believe in the media-created myth of Kennedy’s Camelot – the truth is far more different and speaks to self-serving politics as a family business and a way to gain and maintain the family’s collective fortune.

Does Vicky know that I could care less about the Kennedy name and more about the Santa Monica Airport which Bobby Shriver tried to close. An storied airport that currently serves as a lifeline into the West Los Angeles area during a region-wide natural disaster. An airport rich in aviation history that would be destroyed by the big-money pals of Bobby and his fellow swells.

VOTE FOR NO MORE BS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY POLITICS – VOTE FOR SHEILA KUEHL.

While both candidates are flaming progressive socialist democrats, only Kuehl has the legislative ability to effectively run something bigger than the Santa Monica City Council whose politics are left of San Francisco – albeit the area has better weather.

P.S. The spoofed number on the display screen of my phone (310-545-0031) is an “out-of-service number” – is this just another indication of the dishonesty that pervades the Kennedy campaign?

Chicago activists Paul McKinley, Mark Carter, Joseph Watkins and Harold “Noonie” Ward recently went on the record with RebelPundit to deliver a message to black communities across the country. <Source>

Bottom line …

Here are four black activists actually telling the truth about the progressive socialist democrats and the corrupt black leadership that saw billions of dollars in assistance to the inner cities go to the special interests – with crumbs going to the people affected by the democrat’s public policy actions.

It is about time that blacks stood up and told the truth about democrat politics in America.